And more coves!

  The last session really felt like I was improving, then hit a bump in the road.   Somehow I am doing something different as I initiate the cut.

Overall, these seem to be getting better.   While I'd like to get a deeper cut, the consistency is improving and the surface is definitely better most of the time.   The two spiral catches visible on the right of 11 and 12 were both there before I started.  I am a bit puzzled as to what I have done differently with the lighting on these two shots.

Cove 10 still shows different angles to the final cut, which I think is basically because I am having to take more cuts to get the same distance down, softening the angle.  The effect puts the bottom off center.   The surface is also clearly worse on the right hand side, where I have struggled to get a clean start.    I am starting to wonder about the detail gouge, which is just a little asymmetrical after the last grind, but it would be too simple to blame that.

The same problem is showing on Cove 11, telltale lines on the right, although I have done a somewhat better job of keeping the valley centered and the slopes similar.

One problem I am noticing more clearly now is a ragged edge where the filet meets the beginning of the cover, quite visible on 12 as well as most right shoulders.   Evidence that I am not getting a good planing cut, that has to be from chatter.  Onto the next bunch...

I am also really noticing that the bead-fillet transition is fairly ragged on these billets.   As these are just glued-up construction 2x4s for practice, I have not ever sanded them.   I may really have to work on my sharpening as well as my technique.

Sadly, the spiral catch on the right side of 13 wasn't there before, and neither was the big gouge out of the left side of 15.  Forcing it again.

Trying to force the high angle late cuts on 13, dug in and then ripped right out of the cove.  Ugh.   This is the frustrating part of trying to substitute disciplined repetition for a more natural feel and tool-sense.   None of this seems to come particularly natural to me.

On the bright side, 14 is about as good a cove as I have cut.  A little bit of a ragged edge on the right, but decent depth, good symmetry and surface.   The ragged cut might in part be a matter of the SPF wood.   Once again, couldn't end on a high note.  No idea what I did that would gouge into the shoulder of 15, I was able to clean up most of it - odd that it stopped right at the bead.  On the left shoulder this time too.

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